Opportunistic Infections  Citation List: 

February 18, 2009 – March 3, 2009

TB (Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium, Avium, Drug Resistant, MAC, MDR)

1. Cerulenin Analogues as Inhibitors of Efflux Pumps in Drug-resistant Candida albicans.

Diwischek F, Morschhäuser J, Holzgrabe U.

Arch Pharm (Weinheim). 2009 Feb 27. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 19253321 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

2. Effect of pyrazinamidase activity on pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Sheen P, Ferrer P, Gilman RH, López-Llano J, Fuentes P, Valencia E, Zimic MJ.

Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2009 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 19249243 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

3. Protein kinases as antibacterial targets.

Schreiber M, Res I, Matter A.

Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2009 Feb 24. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 19246185 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

4. Fumagillin and fumarranol interact with P. falciparum methionine aminopeptidase 2 and inhibit malaria parasite growth in vitro and in vivo.

Chen X, Xie S, Bhat S, Kumar N, Shapiro TA, Liu JO.

Chem Biol. 2009 Feb 27;16(2):193-202.

PMID: 19246010 [PubMed - in process]

5. Human Mitochondrial Thymidine Kinase (TK-2) is Selectively Inhibited by 3'-Thiourea Derivatives of {beta}-Thymidine. Identification of residues crucial for both inhibition and catalytic activity.

Balzarini J, Van Daele I, Negri A, Solaroli N, Karlsson A, Liekens S, Gago F, Van Calenbergh S.

Mol Pharmacol. 2009 Feb 20. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 19233899 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

6. 4-Benzyloxy-gamma-Sultone Derivatives: Discovery of a Novel Family of Non-Nucleoside Inhibitors of Human Cytomegalovirus and Varicella Zoster Virus.

De Castro S, García-Aparicio C, Andrei G, Snoeck R, Balzarini J, Camarasa MJ, Velázquez S.

J Med Chem. 2009 Feb 18. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 19226140 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

7. Synthesis and in vitro activity of dicationic bis-benzimidazoles as a new class of anti-MRSA and anti-VRE agents.

Hu L, Kully ML, Boykin DW, Abood N.

Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2009 Mar 1;19(5):1292-5. Epub 2009 Feb 7.

PMID: 19208475 [PubMed - in process]

8. Novel N-aryl- and N-heteryl phenazine-1-carboxamides as potential agents for the treatment of infections sustained by drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

De Logu A, Palchykovska LH, Kostina VH, Sanna A, Meleddu R, Chisu L, Alexeeva IV, Shved AD.

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2009 Mar;33(3):223-9. Epub 2008 Dec 13.

PMID: 19070992 [PubMed - in process]

9. Synthesis and in vitro antimicrobial activity of some novel substituted benzimidazole derivatives having potent activity against MRSA.

Tunçbilek M, Kiper T, Altanlar N.

Eur J Med Chem. 2009 Mar;44(3):1024-33. Epub 2008 Jul 4.

PMID: 18718694 [PubMed - in process]

Antimicrobials, Antifungals (General)

10. Antimicrobial studies of some novel quinazolinones fused with [1,2,4]-triazole, [1,2,4]-triazine and [1,2,4,5]-tetrazine rings.

Pandey SK, Singh A, Singh A, Nizamuddin.

Eur J Med Chem. 2009 Mar;44(3):1188-97. Epub 2008 Jun 3.

PMID: 18614258 [PubMed - in process]

Citations from the ISI Web of  Knowledge Listings for  O.I.

11. Maia, Pedro I. da S., et al.

Vanadium complexes with thiosemicarbazones: Synthesis, characterization, crystal structures and anti-Mycobacterium  tuberculosis activity

POLYHEDRON  2009 (Feb 3) 28: 398 – 406

12. de Souza, M.V.N., et al.

Synthesis and in vitro antitubercular activity of a series of quinoline derivatives

BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY  2009 (Febr. 15)  17: 1474 – 1480

13. Khoshneviszadeh, M., et al.

 Synthesis and biological evaluation of some new 1,4-dihydropyridines containing different ester substitute and diethyl carbamoyl group as anti-tubercular agents

BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY  2009 ( Febr. 15) 17: 1579 – 1586